An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit, a control unit configured to control the imaging unit to automatically capture an image, a registration unit configured to register a subject, and an association unit configured to associate the subject registered by the registration unit with a specific date. The control unit performs control so that a subject registered by the registration unit, with which the date associated by the association unit is the current day, is to be preferentially captured over a subject with which the date associated by the association unit is not the current day or no date is associated by the association unit.
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6. The method for controlling the imaging apparatus according to claim 4, wherein, in a case where the subject with which the specific date associated in the associating is the current day is detected, a user is notified of the detection.
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